educational uses of internet (By Gurvinder Singh)

Uses of Internet in Education

• Students can search what they want to learn about by the use of Google or other search engines like Bing, Yahoo etc.
• Students can learn and take online classes anytime and anywhere.
• Notes and researched paper all are available on the internet and just a click away.
• Students can get tuition online and they can watch Videos on YouTube related to mathematics, English language, physics or any other information about any topic related to their school home work.
• Teachers can use social media to connect with students and share motivational quotes as well as subject related articles and notes.
• Teachers can teach by the use of animation, power point slides, and images to capture the student’s attention.
• Teachers can record their own lectures or topics on camera and upload them to YouTube.
• Parents can also see on what their student’s teachers are doing on Facebook.
• Parents can also help children by watching the same topic on the internet. They also can learn on internet for their personal development so that later they can contribute with their kid’s education. Here is more about it: What is the importance of computers in our parent’s life ?
• Parents can interact, communicate or chat with teachers and school authorities about their kid’s performance and attitude in school.
• School principals, teachers can create Facebook Groups to teach students. Here is more about it: How to use Facebook for Knowledge
• Students can post topic and can ask questions about their topic on Internet to get advice from other teachers and others who are willing to teach.
• Students can connect with other school students for same topic by the use of internet.

Internet in education can play thousands of practical roles to improve talent in kids. But this is only possible if we are going to teach our students what they really need. You can’t explain an algebra lesson on Facebook but you can interact with students about the topic. And government should pay some money for teachers to use social media.